Blockbusting and the Challenges Faced by Black Families in Building Wealth through Housing in the Postwar US (Jonathan Rose)

Jonathan Rose is the Historian of the Federal Reserve System and senior economist and economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is the co-author of Blockbusting and the Challenges Faced by Black Families in Building Wealth through Housing in the Postwar United States (with Daniel Hartley).

Other Materials Mentioned: A Spatial Animation of Blockbusting Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth The Saturday Evening Post: Confessions of a Block-Buster

Appendices: Jonathan Rose: East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity”

Greg Shill: Detroit’s Birwood Wall: Hatred and Healing in the West Eight Mile Community.

Jeff Lin: Urban Life in the Distant Past: The Prehistory of Energized Crowding (Urban Archaeological Pasts).

Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, @greg_shill. Producer: Courtney Campbell

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